TURTLE BEACH TO DEBUT LIMITED EDITION CALL OF DUTY®: BLACK OPS II GAMING HEADSETS

New Line of State of the Art Ear Force Headsets Designed Exclusively for the Year’s Most Anticipated Entertainment Launch 

Sydney, AUSTRALIA – June 6, 2012 – Turtle Beach, pioneers and market-leaders of the gaming headset category, today introduced a new line of exclusively licensed, limited edition Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Ear Force headsets. Custom designed and optimized to deliver enhanced audio experiences for the year’s most anticipated entertainment launch Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the distinctive line will be previewed at Turtle Beach’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) booth: Los Angeles Convention Centre South Hall #2447, from June 5 – 7, 2012. 

Turtle Beach, Activision Publishing, Inc. and award-winning game developer Treyarch are collaborating on every facet of the line, from design to the unique features of each model, offering select compatibility across most major platforms. As with last year’s highly successful launch of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 headset models, Turtle Beach will work with Activision to deploy an extensive mix of marketing, media and retail initiatives to support the new line. 

The Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Ear Force line-up is built with the latest in video game audio technology and is comprised of five products; Ear Force TANGO, Ear Force SIERRA, Ear Force X-RAY, Ear Force KILO and Ear Force EARBUDS. Each limited edition model contains a unique feature set, special packages, bonus content and a price point suitable for casual gamers to serious competitors. These models are specifically designed to enhance the audio experience across each scenario within the epic gameplay of Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, while placing the technology of the future in gamer’s hands today. 

Ear Force TANGO – The top of the line Tango headset offers Call of Duty: Black Ops II fans a sleek, premium design combined with Bluetooth, Wireless Dolby Surround Sound and programmable presets for the ultimate audio experience across the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Tango can be loaded with unique Call of Duty: Black Ops II voice prompts and exclusive audio presets custom-created with Treyarch to create a signature game experience. Players also have the option of configuring personalized presets to customize game, chat and mic audio for different gaming scenarios. In addition, the Tango‘s wireless radio features Turtle Beach’s new dual band Wi-Fi technology and operates via a rechargeable battery for up to 15 hours of uninterrupted gameplay.

Ear Force SIERRA – Optimized for pro tournaments and competitive online play, the Sierra Programmable Dolby Surround Sound headset can also be loaded with Call of Duty: Black Ops II presets custom-created by Treyarch and the option to swap out with personalized presets. The Sierra features a streamlined design with a LED backlit control with touch control capabilities and limited edition Call of Duty: Black Ops II speaker plates for use with Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. In addition, the Sierra features voice morphing so players can disguise their voices; Sonic Lens™ with sound field expander to widen or narrow the sound field and hear game play cues like enemy footsteps; and Ear Guard™ with Blast Limiter to limit the intensity of thunderous sounds like explosions and gunfire. 

Ear Force X-RAY – Boasting clean design and the latest tech, the dual band wireless X-Ray provides Call of Duty: Black Ops II players with an optimized Dolby Surround Sound experience for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Featuring a rechargeable battery and dynamic Chat Boost, players can battle for up to 15 hours in style and comfort with friends. 

Ear Force KILO – For Call of Duty: Black Ops II gamers seeking an affordable high fidelity stereo experience, the new USB powered Kilo delivers with its powerful 50mm speakers and amplified stereo sound for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. Players can also quickly access critical gaming audio controls, including chat and game volume via its inline amp, and experience enhanced depth and realism through the headset’s Bass Boost. 

Ear Force EARBUDS – The Ear Force Earbuds are the ideal audio solution for gamers looking to display their dedication to Call of Duty: Black Ops II and enjoy premium quality audio while gaming, talking or listening to music, on their mobile phones or tablets. Its inline microphone provides crystal-clear communication for hands-free calling or chatting during online game play, while its ear gels and design are optimized to eradicate ambient noise and provide optimal comfort. 

Additional details about limited edition Turtle Beach Call of Duty: Black Ops II package features, bonus content, promotions, pricing and more will be announced later in 2012. 

Scheduled to launch worldwide on November 13, 2012, Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the sequel to the universally acclaimed and record setting Call of Duty: Black Ops. Award winning developer Treyarch and Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Actvision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), return to take gamers to the year 2025 in the most groundbreaking and visceral Call of Duty® experience ever. Featuring a near future setting, branching storylines, advanced weaponry and new graphics technology, Call of Duty: Black Ops II pushes the boundaries of the famed franchise. For more information, visit www.callofduty.com/blackops2 or follow Call of Duty: Black Ops II on www.facebook.com/codblackops. 

The dominant player in the gaming headset category, Turtle Beach revolutionised game audio with the industry’s first truly customizable headset, the Ear Force PX5, followed by the Ear Force XP500, the first Xbox 360 headset to feature completely wireless Xbox LIVE chat capabilities. Gamers interested in learning more about Turtle Beach’s line-up of Call of Duty: Black Ops II headsets should visit turtlebeach.com/E32012 to sign up for updates about special content, additional product details, pre and on-sale info and other special news and alerts.

Survival-Horror Shooter Showcases Nintendo Wii U^TM GamePad, Delivers Intense and Terrifying
New Gaming Experience

 SYDNEY — June 6, 2012 — At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Ubisoft challenged gamers to find out  how long they can survive in the dilapidated, infected world of ZombiU – a new survival-horror shooter that will be released exclusively for Nintendo’s Wii U^TM. ZombiU headlines a group of eight titles from Ubisoft that will be available for the Nintendo Wii U^TM. 

Developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, the studio behind critically acclaimed titles like From Dust^TM, Beyond Good & Evil^® and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter^®, ZombiU puts players in the middle of London circa 2012, where an outbreak has infected the population, destroying their humanity and turning them into mindless monsters preying on the flesh of the few remaining survivors. This fear-fueled first-person shooter takes all the terror, chaos and tension found in the best of the horror genre and adds original interactive elements, including a unique death mechanic that puts players in the body of a different survivor each time they die, allowing them to track and take down their old, infected characters, recover their equipment and see if they can stay alive just a little bit longer this time. 

ZombiU showcases the innovative features of the Nintendo Wii U^TM GamePad and creates new game experiences not possible on other consoles. The Nintendo Wii U^TM GamePad serves as the player’s ultimate survival kit, called the “Bug Out Bag.” The Bug Out Bag is a backpack containing all the maps, tools, weapons and supplies that players can scavenge from the limited resources available in the devastated cityscape. ZombiU also uses the Nintendo Wii U^TM GamePad’s touch screen, gyroscope and camera to create a tactile connection between gamers and the in-game world. Finally, ZombiU features a distinctive multiplayer adversarial mode that allows one player to take on the role of “Zombie Master,” spawning and controlling enemies from a top-down view on the Nintendo Wii U^TM GamePad while the second player fights for survival on the big screen in first-person shooter view with the Nintendo Wii U^TM Pro controller.    

“ZombiU is a dark and daunting game that gamers will love to play again and again,” said Guillaume Brunier, producer at Ubisoft. “ZombiU takes advantage of the Nintendo Wii U’s one-of-a-kind capabilities and will be a launch title that every gamer will want to sink their teeth into.” 

For more information on ZombiU, please visit the official ZombiU website (www.zombiu.com) and facebook.com/zombiugame 

ZombiU also can be pre-ordered at UBIShop^® by visiting: www.ubishop.com/zombiu 

ZombiU – Announcement Trailer (ANZ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVHhWgA0lr0

ZombiU – Wii U Controller Trailer (ANZ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HERt5muBNmI

Legendary Lizard-like “Gorn” Set to Battle Kirk and Spock in Ultimate Co-op Gaming Experience

Scheduled to Release in Early 2013

Sydney, Australia (June 6, 2012) – Paramount Pictures and leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today gave fans the first look at the key villain to be featured in the upcoming Star Trek™ video game inspired by J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) film reboot. The announcement made at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), revealed that a legendary lizard-like race known in Trek lore as “The Gorn” will play the destructive and villainous role in the video game releasing in early 2013. The co-op game is based on a standalone storyline that continues the adventure of iconic characters Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock as they work together to stop the Gorn, an enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy.

“The Gorn are among the most iconic villains in the Star Trek universe and their role in this game certainly lives up to that persona ,” said Brian Miller, Senior Vice President at Paramount Pictures and lead game producer.  “Kirk and Spock find themselves in an incredibly challenging amount of mayhem as they confront the Gorn throughout the game.”

More than just lizard-skinned foes, the Gorn are a blood-thirsty race determined to conquer the galaxy. A true military dictatorship, the Gorn are made up of billions of self-sacrificing warriors across thousands of colonies, each focused on the conquest of alien races. By utilizing their chaos-causing infectious venom, the Gorn seed mayhem and destruction as they destroy populations and deplete planets of their resources.

“Great villains give our favorite characters a chance to become heroes in the process of attempting to eliminate a powerful threat, and Star Trek fans have been eagerly anticipating the moment when the antagonists of the game would be revealed,” said Carlson Choi, VP of Marketing at NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “This is one of those moments and we couldn’t be more excited to give gamers a glimpse at the challenges that lie ahead for Kirk and Spock.”

The Gorn range in size and abilities, infecting their foes with venom that can poison, cause hallucinations, and even kill. From the smaller infantry Gorn Rushers, to the larger Gorn Warriors and the massive Gorn Brutes, the Gorn provides a serious direct threat, while the wall-climbing Gorn females showcase the cunning for which this race is feared. Technologically capable and possessing the antithesis of Federation ideals, the Gorn pose a devastating threat to Starfleet, the Enterprise, and its crew.

With a storyline occurring after the events of J.J. Abram’s 2009 Star Trek reboot, the Star Trek video game puts players in the shoes of seminal heroes Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, inviting them to work together to take on the ferocious Gorn in this epic action adventure.  Built from the ground up as the ultimate co-op experience, players are set on a journey of immense proportions across unexplored planets and enemy battleships with the latest 23^rd century weapons and gear. Kirk and Spock’s complementary personalities result in the most fully realized and varied co-op experience for this console generation. 

Under a license from CBS Consumer Products, the game is being developed by Ontario-based developer Digital Extremes (Bioshock 2, Unreal Tournament, Dark Sector, The Darkness II) with production being overseen by Paramount Pictures and a scheduled release in early 2013 for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC.

Attendees of E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 5-7 can see a live demonstration of the Star Trek game and take photos in the Enterprise captain’s chair at the NAMCO BANDAI Games Booth # 1637 (located in the South Hall).

For more information on the Star Trek video game, please visit www.startrekgame.com  and follow the game on Twitter at www.twitter.com/star_trek_game.

For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Games, please visit http://www.namcobandaigames.com.

NAMCO BANDAI GAMES ANNOUNCES TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 (WORKING TITLE)
AND TANK! TANK! TANK! (TENTATIVE TITLE) FOR NINTENDO’S Wii U™ 

Sydney, Australia – 6 June 2012 –NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. today announced TEKKEN™ TAG TOURNAMENT 2 (working title) and TANK! TANK! TANK!™ (tentative title) are coming across EMEA and Australasia on the Wii U™ console from Nintendo. The upcoming titles offer their own unique brand of explosive arcade action for video game fans of all ages.

 TEKKEN™ TAG TOURNAMENT 2 (working title)

The TEKKEN series smashes its way to the Wii U with the largest roster of characters and modes to ever hit a Nintendo console. Based on the TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT™ 2 arcade engine, TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 for Wii U features stunning graphics, an unparalleled fighting system, online multiplayer and robust customization options. TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 for     Wii U will also feature exciting exclusive content for the Wii U console giving the title its own unique flair that will appeal to both hardcore and casual fans of the fighting game genre. 

TANK! TANK! TANK! (tentative title)

Get ready for one of the most bombastic battle-party-games ever with TANK! TANK! TANK! Players will find a fantastic armament of tanks and weapons at their disposal to dispatch the enemy threat, including mechanical insects, gigantic dragons and even other players. Team up with three other friends to battle with or against each other in fully destructible environments in a variety of action-packed story and multiplayer modes where weapons are never in short supply and threats are hiding behind every corner. Players will be able to arm their tanks with lasers, machine guns, missile pods, the dreaded Colossus Missile along with power-ups scattered throughout each map. 

For more information on TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 and TANK! TANK! TANK!, please visit: http://www.namcobandaigames.eu

Watch all videos from Namco Bandai Games Europe on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/NamcoBandaiGamesEU

 Over 600K^[1] user profile settings uploaded in less than six months  

LOS ANGELES (E3 2012) – Razer™, a high performance gaming hardware producer, today announced at the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) “Cloud and X-Platform Gaming” press conference that the company’s cloud-based service, Razer Synapse 2.0, in fewer than six months, has surpassed half a million¹ user profile settings. Razer also announced that Razer Synapse 2.0 now supports the Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse, with other legacy products to follow, including the Razer BlackWidow mechanical gaming keyboard. With millions of Razer products in the hands of gamers today, Razer expects the number of user profile settings to continue to grow. 

Razer Synapse 2.0 is a unified configurator that allows synchronization of settings on Razer gaming peripherals and devices through one unique user ID. Designed to improve user experience, Razer Synapse 2.0 eliminates the need to repeatedly reconfigure user settings, profiles and other gaming content, and provides gamers with access to customized options such as macros and key-binds through a single platform. Favourite configurations can be saved via Razer Synapse 2.0, enabling users to replicate and port their user profiles between gaming devices over the cloud, allowing the gamer to move his personalized settings freely between LAN centres, tournament sites and his favourite gaming rigs.

Razer plans to enable Synapse 2.0 for more legacy Razer peripherals and devices by year end.  

Planned Upcoming Razer Synapse 2.0 Support: 

• §       Razer DeathAdder            Today
• §       Razer BlackWidow          Q3‘2012
• §       Razer Abyssus      Q3‘2012
• §       Razer Cyclosa                   Q3‘2012
• §       Razer Naga Epic   Q3‘2012
• §       Razer Mamba                   Q3‘2012
• §       Razer Anansi                    Q4‘2012
• §       Razer Imperator    Q4‘2012
• §       Razer Nostromo   Q4‘2012

Check out the cover of Max Payne 3 Issue #2: “Hoboken Blues” – the middle chapter of this three part comic series produced by Marvel – which will be available as a free download via the Max Payne 3 Official Site on Tuesday, June 12th (look for it at additional digital comic outlets shortly thereafter).

“Hoboken Blues” further explores Max’s fractured psyche as he recalls the circumstances of his life that led up to his confrontation with Tony DeMarco in the Hoboken dive bar at the onset of Chapter 4 in Max Payne 3. Max’s time as New York City cop, his early days on the force, meeting his wife and his ultimate dismissal from the NYPD in the wake of the events that transpired in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne are all featured in this new issue, written by Dan Houser and Remedy’s Sam Lake, with cover art by Jorge Molina and pencils and inks by Fernando Blanco. 

There’s also still time to get your hands on a printed edition of Issue #1: “After The Fall”, as we’re giving away ten copies to lucky Social Club members every week until through the end of this month. Just enter your Social Club info at www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/comics for your chance to win. 

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Download Issue #1 of the Max Payne 3 Original Comic Produced by Marvel: “After the Fall” 

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